Aussie Readers discussion

Authors with first or last names beginning with "V"

FIRST NAME

V.C. Andrews
V.S. Carnes
Vaddey Ratner
Valmore Daniels
Vanessa Fewings
Vanessa Garden
Veronica Blade
Veronica Morfi
Veronica Rossi
Veronica Roth
Vicki Pettersson
Vicki Tyley
Victoria Dahl
Victoria Limbert
Victoria Schwab
Victoria Scott
Vidya Madabushi
Vikki Petraitis
Vikki Wakefield
Vikram Chandra
Vikram Seth
Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Zandri
Violet Haberdasher
Virginia Feito
Virginia King
Viveca Sten
Vivian Marie Aubin du Paris
Vladimir Nabokov

LAST NAMES

Valentine, Michelle A.
Valéry, Paul
Vance, J.D.
van-Alkemade, Kim
van Os, Joanne
Vaughn, Carrie
Vega, Denise
Verlaine, Paul
Verday, Jessica
Verne, Jules
Viggers, Karen
Vincent, Rachel
Vine, Barbara
Viner, P.D.
Viskic, Emma
Vitaliev, Vitali
Vizinczey, Stephen
Voigt, Cynthia
Voltaire
von Arnim, Elizabeth
Vonnegut, Kurt

Thanks :)

My pleasure!
Oh, and Paul Valéry

The French poet and author Paul Valéry was nominated a staggering 12 times for the Nobel Prize in literature between 1930 and 1945. The Swedish Academy, having finally accepted modernist poetry, planned to name him the 1945 winner. However, he died in July, and Gabriela Mistral was named the laureate.

Again ;)

Here are some authors, including three Australian authors whose surname ends with V and are on my list of books.

Emma Viskic - Resurrection Bay
P.D. Viner - The Last Winter of Dani Lancing
Karen Viggers - The Grass Castle
Joanne van Os - Ronan's Echo

I enjoyed reading both Ronan's Echo and Resurrection Bay and would recommend them to anyone looking for a V author in a challenge.

The Russian-born journalist and author Vitali Vitaliev is a good name to remember for challenges. I loved his memoir Dreams On Hitler's Couch.

Thanks Susan - Vitaliev sounds amazing. He collaborated on the 2007 QI Annual and has been on Have I Got News For You!

Also, please add Stephen Vizinczey who is 85 this year.

Born in Hungary in 1933, Vizinczey's first published works were poems which appeared in George Lukacs's Budapest magazine Forum in 1949, at age 16. He studied under Lukacs at the University of Budapest and graduated from the city's Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1956. At that time, he wrote two plays -The Last Word, and Mama - which were banned by the Hungarian Communist regime. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and after a short stay in Italy, ended up in Canada, although he could only speak only 50 words of English, and eventually became a Canadian citizen, having learned English whilst writing scripts for Canada's National Film Board and the CBC. He edited Canada's short-lived literary magazine, Exchange. In 1966 he moved to London. Vizinczey cites his literary ideals as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Stendhal and Kleist. His best-known works are the novels In Praise of Older Women (1965) and An Innocent Millionaire (1983).

Thanks all :)

An extra couple of V's for the list

J.D. Vance author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
and
(not sure about this one, does the van count?
Kim van-Alkemade author of Orphan Number Eight

Thanks Kerri :)

Another V author

Virginia Feito

And more:

Elizabeth von Arnim AA she was born in Australia but moved to Europe

Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell

Thanks Clare :)

I hope it is alright to necro this thread:

Vikram Seth, Vaddey Ratner, Vidya Madabushi (AA) and Vikram Chandra are some other options.

Thanks Tanu :)

Vikki Wakefield & Vikki Petraitis (both AA).

Thanks Tanu :)

Virginia King AA

Thanks Alex :)

A favourite Scandinavian author of mine Viveca Sten

Thanks Kylie :)

YA author Meg Gatland-Veness AA

That name will come under G, Clare, as it's hyphenated :)